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Helen Lewis

Dr Helen Lewis is director of initial teacher education at Swansea University. Her background is in primary, initial and continuing teacher education, and she has previously worked as a teacher...

Making post-GCSE decisions during the Covid-19 crisis: The need for action

Covid-19, education and educational research

In the public debate about the impacts of the Covid-19 lockdown on education, much attention has understandably been given to concerns about disadvantaged children falling behind at school, and to...

Re‐educating the nation? A Curriculum Journal special issue on the new curriculum for Wales

A new special issue of the Curriculum Journal, published simultaneously in English and Welsh, explores the many issues that arise when a country decides to rewrite the school curriculum –...

Tackling the languages ‘crisis’: Supporting multilingualism in the new curriculum for Wales

What can be done to inspire an uplift for modern foreign languages across Wales in the future?

Learning progression in the humanities: Identifying tensions in articulating progression in the humanities in Wales

The current curriculum reforms in Wales (Welsh Government, 2020) represent a significant shift in thinking and organisation. As well as the introduction of the ‘four purposes’ to drive...

The art of connecting: How primary and secondary teachers are building a framework for expressive arts

Curriculum reform in Wales is heralding a raft of changes for schools, one of which is the rise in significance of the expressive arts. The new Welsh curriculum for learners aged 3-to-16, which...

The new core maths qualifications: A welcome opportunity, but what is their place in the curriculum?

We are approaching the end of a three-year project, funded by the Nuffield Foundation, investigating the successes and challenges of core maths (CM), a set of post-16 qualifications introduced in...

Ruth Lupton

Honorary Professor

Ruth Lupton is an honorary professor of education at the University of Manchester. She researches educational inequalities, policy and the role of place.

Stephanie Thomson

Dr Stephanie Thomson is a lecturer in educational policy at the University of Aberdeen. Her research interests focus on inequality and education policy.

Lorna Unwin

Lorna Unwin is professor emerita (vocational education) at the UCL Institute of Education and honorary professorial research fellow at the University of Manchester. Her research interests focus on...

Sanne Velthuis

Dr Sanne Velthuis is a research associate at the University of Manchester. Her research interests include education, inequality and low-paid work.

Rachel Mathieson

Dr Rachel Mathieson is a research fellow at the Centre for Curriculum, Pedagogy and Policy, at the School of Education, University of Leeds. Rachel has spent her working life in the field of...